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The investigation continued, but found nothing. Well, the men on the portraits were identified as local day-laborers, single men with no family ties, who had disappeared by now.
I was on medical leave from my job as a rural alchemist, since I couldn't horse ride with a broken leg. That was good, because I could spend my entire day at the factory, jumping around in crutches, dealing with paperwork, and sitting in all the chairs I placed around the factory, observing the work and giving instructions.
The workers needed constant supervision, and I had to stay on top of it, making sure everybody was getting trained properly. Even our line managers weren't that good.
Yet.
These were just growing pains, I told myself. We'd figure out how to do these things, and how to actually start prod
